Enabling sustainable transformation: hybrid organizations in early phases of path generation
The rapidly growing research on hybrid organizations in recent years suggests that these organizations may have particular abilities to facilitate institutional change. This article contributes to our understanding of change and, in particular, sustainable transformation in society by highlighting t...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of business ethics |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2020
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Journal of business ethics
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| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Path-generation
B Sweden B Institutional Change B Hybrid organization B Sustainability B Multivocality B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift B The Natural Step |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The rapidly growing research on hybrid organizations in recent years suggests that these organizations may have particular abilities to facilitate institutional change. This article contributes to our understanding of change and, in particular, sustainable transformation in society by highlighting the importance of organizational forms. Looking more closely at the role of hybrid organizations in processes of path generation, we analyze the conditions under which hybrid organizations may enable path generation. A retrospective (1988-2017) exploratory case study of the Swedish hybrid organization The Natural Step confirms how hybrids can take part in- and may facilitate the early phases of path generation: assimilation and coalescence. The conclusion drawn is that hybrids have multivocal abilities that enable them to earn trust and authority to open up “neutral” spaces for orientation and connection between actors in separated sub-paths, and that this in turn may ease tensions and trigger dialogue and exchange, also between former opponents. Yet, as also seen in the case, this enabling position of the hybrid may be both fragile and temporary. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-04098-0 |